Shirt-stud holder.



I --No. 789,884. PATEN-TED MAY 16, 1905.

H. T. SGHIEDRIGH. SHIRT STUD HOLDER.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG. 1I 1904.

Mi/57mm UNTTED STATES Patented May 1e, 1905.

PATENT Trice.

SHIRT-STUD HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,884, dated May 16, 1905.

Applicaion filed August l, 1904. sl'itl. N0. 219,063-

TO a/ZZ whom. t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY T. ScHInDRicH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirt-Stud Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to producea cheap, simple, and efficient device to hold the shirt-stud in proper position and at the same time make it impossible to remove the said stud without an extra edort, and thus making it impossible to either lose the stud or have it stolen, insuring absolute safety to the wearer. By the use of my device the stud is absolutely locked.into position.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front view of a shirt, showing the device in position by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is the side view of the device, the shirt being shown by a crosssection line. Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of the device, the dotted lines showing the guard as it appears when opened ready for the stud to be slipped in place. Fig. 4 is a side view of the device in elevation, the stud being removed.

The shirt is represented by letter a.

The device proper is made of a piece of metal narrow at the center to form a neck b when bent over and at each side of the neck forms a disk, plate, or piece c d. The disks or plates c Z and neck I are made'of one piece and preferably stamped out of sheet metal. A movable guard c, preferably semicircular in shape, is pivoted at g to the plate c. This guard c has at its loose end a nose or extension t. The plate c has a slot In, which runs from the edge to the center of plate c, where the slot is rounded out to form a home for the stem m of the stud n. A depression @is present at the forward end of the movable guard c. Two burs or small lugs or depressions r s are present in the'plate c.

The device can be made of any size and of any material and can be used on cravat-studs, sleeve-buttons, or similar articles.

The device is used as follows, to wit: The

stud is first screwed into position as ordinarily used. My shirt-stud holder, with the movable guard a extended, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, is placed behind the stud, the stud a being slipped in between the plates c d, the neck m of the stud slipping into the slot 7c, as shown in Fig. 2. When the stem m of the stud a has reached its limit in slot the movable guard c is forced or moved forward until it has assumed the position shown, (partly by dotted lines in Fig. 3.) The movable guard e, as it is forced home, is limited in its movement by bur or lug s, the depression o fitting over the lug fr, this locking or holding the movable guard in position to hold the stud properly against accidents, loss, or removal until the movable guard is again forced back by pushing back on the nose or extension /L until the guard assumes the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, when it (the stud) can be slipped out.

It will be seen that my device is neat in appearance, simple of construction, and efficient in use.

What I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a shirt-stud holder, a slotted plate, a

rear plate, said rear plate lying directly back of said slotted plate, a neck connecting said plates together, a space being left between said plates, a movable guard, said movable guard attached to said slotted plate,said guard when locked extending slightly beyond said plate, the guard having a depression in its forward end which lits a bur on the slotted plate to lock the guard on the plate when closed, as set forth.

2. In a shirt-stud holder, a slotted plate, a rear plate, said rear plate and slotted plate connected together by a neck, a space being left between the plates, a movable guard, said movable guard attached to said slotted plate, to lock or unlock the stud in the slotted plate, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a shirt-stud holder, a slotted plate, a rear plate, said rear plate lying directly back of said slotted plate, a neck connecting said plates together, a space being left between said plates, a movable guard, said movable end which fits a bur on the slotted plate, to guard attached to said slotted plate, the guard lock the guard on the plate When closed, as on its outer edgewhen Closed fitting the conand for the purposes set forth.

tour of the slotted plate, and on its inner edge HENRY T. SCHIEDRICH. 5 being straight; the -said guard When locked Witnesses:

extending slightly beyond said slotted plate, Jos. SOHAEFER,

the guard having a depression in its forward JOHN Ji MULVANEY, 

